ЛемкоWithHistory

At some point you realize the vast majority of English-language books on Rusyns are the same thing repeated in a variety of slightly different ways. Always the same milquetoast attitude, the same topic of being a stateless minority, the same drivel about what our ancestors were like. The same speeches, materials, and events on the same topic.

No second level of material at all that is easily accessible. To find anything worth something you've got to go back decades probably. Even then, the standards are not high.

It reminds me of a documentary on the Villages in Florida. Each year a new crop of boomers blow through the rest of their money to live out their remaining golden years. As someone dies another replaces them, learning the same basic things and doing the same activities until it is their turn.

Much of the whatever can be called the Rusyn diaspora economy revolves around a similar system with the same demographic. A shame I'm so repulsed by it, I could have actually begun to get support for my efforts in some meaningful way.

Sometimes it is a good thing that the wicked get a chance at holding power if they are also irrational. When they fail as they are failing now, it will discredit them for years to come.

A1 Rusyn group lessons probably starting in January. Pannonian Rusyn focus but will teach the basics of Carpatho-Rusyn as well.

All the bells are tolling
In the Galician Capital, and
the weary Thalerhofians are stirring
All across their native land

A procession of mourners
Bearing church banners,
In their bereavement
Are seeking a place to erect a monument

Towards an open area they are bound
And ask for a patch of ground,
And at Thalerhof, following a burial ceremony,
A memorial is dedicated in honor of their memory.

Oh, black jackdaw take to the air,
To the vicinity of Dnieper,
And return with Bohdan’s never
Forgotten words of valor.

Let all people know
About our great sorrow,
Let the news about the rivers of blood
Be heard heard in the regions of the Black Sea.

Let us get together and be eloquent
In our denunciation of cruelty to our Russian [Rusyn] brothers
At the hands of the cruel Austro-Magyars
In the Thalerhof concentration encampment.

Come and attend the mournful adoration
Of the people tortured inhumanely,
And perpetuate their memory
From generation to generation.

As long as we have breath
We shall remind the Russian [Rusyn] generations
To fight to the death,
And uproot the seeds of dissentions.

For our Rus to rise again
And heal her pain,
She must forever wrench herself free
From under the heel of oppressive tyranny

Descendants of the Thalerhof martyrs
For a funeral repast gather here,
And the graves of your renowned forefathers
bedaw with tears sincere.

Children of Thalerhof, come and revere
The memory of your forefather buried here!
Come, decorate their graves and pray
On this annual Thalerhof Memorial Day!

The past 4 months have been horrible on X when searching for Rusyn content. Some soccer guy who plays for a team in the UK has the last name Rusyn so I've been inundated with British twats talking about how piss poor of a player he is on my feed.